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I never considered that awk was a precursor to JavaScript but I can certainly see that
by rusk 2y ago
I never considered that awk was a precursor to JavaScript but I can certainly see that
- mananaysiempre 2y agoFound it! Wirfs-Brock & Eich, “JavaScript: the first 20 years” (HOPL ’20) [1], §3.1: > The syntax of JavaScript 1.0 was directly modeled after the statement syntax of the C programming language with some AWK inspired embellishments. (the rest of the section is also interesting in that respect). [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386327 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386327 (CC-BY open access)
- rusk 2y agoI could feel it all along!